1965 "First Edition" stated; Alfred A. Knopf publishers, New York; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; royal blue boards with vivid gilt lettering and design; dust jacket quite good with minor ageing and ink stamp on front (pic).
 
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The story follows a young Arizona girl renamed White Lotus. As she ages, she evolves from “a bewildered, terrified slave to a conscious and intelligent revolutionary.” Her orchestrated, yet simple act of standing before her captors on one leg, head bowed like a sleeping bird becomes an often repeated act of nonviolent civil disobedience, an unconventional act in the spirit of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King.